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Archive for April 26th, 2006

Who Will Be Remote Monitoring's Early Adopters?

Health economist, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn notes today at iHealthBeat, the current turbulence in the remote patient monitoring in a review of Spyglass Consulting's new report (previous post here). Sarasohn-Kahn reports reimbursement, licensure, clinician resistance and lack of demonstrable
return on investment as the most formidable impediments to remote monitoring market adoption.
One service that intrigued Malkary was […]


Could SAW RFID Tags Serve Health Care?

SAW stands for Surface Acoustic Wave technology that is used in a type of passive RFID tag that's been around since the 1970s. SAW tags use piezoelectric crystals with “reflectors” at predetermined intervals to represent a tag's data. The tags can be read from as far away as 20 meters, and can provide up to […]


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